June 3, 2023
Sean and I have been married six years now and just recently celebrated our wedding anniversary. Looking back at our wedding itself, one of the only things I would have changed would have been making sure we got some video…
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April 30, 2023
April is #SexualAssaultAwareness month and The Brand New Day Fund (TBNDF) is honored and happy to donate to a wonderful organization called Thistle Farms. Established over 25 years ago in Nashville, TN by Rev. Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms is “a…
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April 14, 2023
Yesterday marks the first full year of my debut solo album “Brand New Day” being out in the world. Taking time to travel back in my mind, to release day, April 13th, 2022, I can recall the overwhelming sensation of…
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February 28, 2023
I first heard about a place called Onsite Workshops the night I met my future husband, Sean. Well, actually, it was the second time I’d met him, but that’s a story for another time. At 27 years old, Sean was…
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February 1, 2023
I’m returning with more books that have been essential to my personal growth. Understandably, memoirs have hugely influenced my life trajectory, most obviously evidenced by the fact that I have recently written a memoir of my own. I have long…
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December 5, 2022
It’s time for round two! I’m unabashedly using this little blog series to continuing sharing the personally life-saving reads from my journey towards health, safer, more courageous living after my past experiences with childhood trauma and abuse…
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November 13, 2022
In the epilogue of my memoir, I wrote, “I will never fully understand how I survived what I did. But it seems to me that books and reading have contributed their fair share toward both my survival and recovery so…
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July 22, 2022
This Monday, my memoir, Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice was announced by PEOPLE magazine. It doesn’t yet feel real that I’ve written a whole book – let alone that it’s so close to coming out into the…
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September 22, 2020
IT WAS SEPTEMBER NINTH and I was a bundle of nerves and excitement as I drank my piping hot morning coffee. The first day of recording my solo album had finally arrived. I felt a familiar twinge of chronic unpreparedness…
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September 4, 2020
THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. If all goes to plan, in just FIVE DAYS, I will be in the studio officially recording my first album as a solo artist. I’m singing and practicing every day as my anticipation continues to…
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